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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

Anne Lamott

I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
ANNE LAMOTT

Carry Change Myself People Thinking
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
ANNE LAMOTT

Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
ANNE LAMOTT

Creation Expression Search Time Writing
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
ANNE LAMOTT

Break Children Day Discipline Myself Need
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTT

Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Best Help Prayer Thankful
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

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